Bess Sadler

Contact: bess -at- stanford -dot- edu, @eosadler

Location: Silicon Valley, California

Topics: Bess is a co-founder of two highly successful open source software projects, Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) and Hydra (http://projecthydra.org). Both projects are written in Ruby on Rails and use agile development practices such as test driven development and continuous integration. Bess is available to speak on open source community building, digital preservation, managing big data, Blacklight, Hydra, digital libraries, museums, and designing for discovery. Popular talks she has given include “Vampires vs Werewolves: Ending the War Between Developers and Sysadmins” (a talk on puppet system configuration) and “Brain Injuries, Science Fiction, and Library Discovery,” a 2012 invited keynote at a national library technology conference.